diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
index 8ed97f8ddd..28f672e42d 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
                 self._downloader.report_warning(errmsg)
                 return False
 
-    def _download_webpage_handle(self, url_or_request, video_id, note=None, errnote=None, fatal=True):
+    def _download_webpage_handle(self, url_or_request, video_id, note=None, errnote=None, fatal=True, encoding=None):
         """ Returns a tuple (page content as string, URL handle) """
         # Strip hashes from the URL (#1038)
         if isinstance(url_or_request, (compat_str, str)):
@@ -334,14 +334,11 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
         if urlh is False:
             assert not fatal
             return False
-        content = self._webpage_read_content(urlh, url_or_request, video_id, note, errnote, fatal)
+        content = self._webpage_read_content(urlh, url_or_request, video_id, note, errnote, fatal, encoding=encoding)
         return (content, urlh)
 
-    def _webpage_read_content(self, urlh, url_or_request, video_id, note=None, errnote=None, fatal=True, prefix=None):
-        content_type = urlh.headers.get('Content-Type', '')
-        webpage_bytes = urlh.read()
-        if prefix is not None:
-            webpage_bytes = prefix + webpage_bytes
+    @staticmethod
+    def _guess_encoding_from_content(content_type, webpage_bytes):
         m = re.match(r'[a-zA-Z0-9_.-]+/[a-zA-Z0-9_.-]+\s*;\s*charset=(.+)', content_type)
         if m:
             encoding = m.group(1)
@@ -354,6 +351,16 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
                 encoding = 'utf-16'
             else:
                 encoding = 'utf-8'
+
+        return encoding
+
+    def _webpage_read_content(self, urlh, url_or_request, video_id, note=None, errnote=None, fatal=True, prefix=None, encoding=None):
+        content_type = urlh.headers.get('Content-Type', '')
+        webpage_bytes = urlh.read()
+        if prefix is not None:
+            webpage_bytes = prefix + webpage_bytes
+        if not encoding:
+            encoding = self._guess_encoding_from_content(content_type, webpage_bytes)
         if self._downloader.params.get('dump_intermediate_pages', False):
             try:
                 url = url_or_request.get_full_url()
@@ -410,13 +417,13 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
 
         return content
 
-    def _download_webpage(self, url_or_request, video_id, note=None, errnote=None, fatal=True, tries=1, timeout=5):
+    def _download_webpage(self, url_or_request, video_id, note=None, errnote=None, fatal=True, tries=1, timeout=5, encoding=None):
         """ Returns the data of the page as a string """
         success = False
         try_count = 0
         while success is False:
             try:
-                res = self._download_webpage_handle(url_or_request, video_id, note, errnote, fatal)
+                res = self._download_webpage_handle(url_or_request, video_id, note, errnote, fatal, encoding=encoding)
                 success = True
             except compat_http_client.IncompleteRead as e:
                 try_count += 1
@@ -431,10 +438,10 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
 
     def _download_xml(self, url_or_request, video_id,
                       note='Downloading XML', errnote='Unable to download XML',
-                      transform_source=None, fatal=True):
+                      transform_source=None, fatal=True, encoding=None):
         """Return the xml as an xml.etree.ElementTree.Element"""
         xml_string = self._download_webpage(
-            url_or_request, video_id, note, errnote, fatal=fatal)
+            url_or_request, video_id, note, errnote, fatal=fatal, encoding=encoding)
         if xml_string is False:
             return xml_string
         if transform_source:
@@ -445,9 +452,10 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
                        note='Downloading JSON metadata',
                        errnote='Unable to download JSON metadata',
                        transform_source=None,
-                       fatal=True):
+                       fatal=True, encoding=None):
         json_string = self._download_webpage(
-            url_or_request, video_id, note, errnote, fatal=fatal)
+            url_or_request, video_id, note, errnote, fatal=fatal,
+            encoding=encoding)
         if (not fatal) and json_string is False:
             return None
         return self._parse_json(
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/qqmusic.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/qqmusic.py
index e8aacbc3d7..174c8e0ae7 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/qqmusic.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/qqmusic.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ class QQMusicIE(InfoExtractor):
             'title': '可惜没如果',
             'upload_date': '20141227',
             'creator': '林俊杰',
-            'description': 'md5:242c97c2847e0495583b7b13764f7106',
+            'description': 'md5:4348ff1dd24036906baa7b6f973f8d30',
         }
     }]
 
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ class QQMusicIE(InfoExtractor):
         detail_info_page = self._download_webpage(
             'http://s.plcloud.music.qq.com/fcgi-bin/fcg_yqq_song_detail_info.fcg?songmid=%s&play=0' % mid,
             mid, note='Download song detail info',
-            errnote='Unable to get song detail info')
+            errnote='Unable to get song detail info', encoding='gbk')
 
         song_name = self._html_search_regex(
             r"songname:\s*'([^']+)'", detail_info_page, 'song name')